手机
shǒu jī
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 手機
A mobile phone, including a smartphone. 手机号 is a mobile number, and 玩手机, literally 'to play phone', is to pass the time on your phone. The measure word is 部 or, in everyday speech, 个.
Điện thoại di động, kể cả điện thoại thông minh. 手机号 là số di động; 玩手机 (nghĩa đen là “chơi điện thoại”) là dùng điện thoại để giải trí, lướt mạng. Lượng từ là 部, trong khẩu ngữ thường dùng 个.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “手机” mean?
A mobile phone, including a smartphone. 手机号 is a mobile number, and 玩手机, literally 'to play phone', is to pass the time on your phone. The measure word is 部 or, in everyday speech, 个. Literally: hand machine
Is “手机” formal or informal?
手机 is generally neutral.